The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied. The factor decomposition of disposable income into single income components shows that capital income is exceedingly volatile and its share in disposable income has risen in recent years. Moreover, capital income makes a disproportionately high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular. Thus capital income accounts for a large part of disparity in all three countries.Inequality, capital income, factor decomposition, CNEF

The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied. The factor decomposition of disposable income into single income components shows that capital income is exceedingly volatile and its share in disposable income has risen in recent years. Moreover, capital income makes a disproportionately high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular. Thus capital income accounts for a large part of disparity in all three countries.Inequality, capital income, factor decomposition, CNEF

The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied. The factor decomposition of disposable income into single income components shows that capital income is exceedingly volatile and its share in disposable income has risen in recent years. Moreover, capital income makes a disproportionately high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular. Thus capital income accounts for a large part of disparity in all three countries.inequality, capital income, factor decomposition, CNEF

Promovierende im Profil: Wege, Strukturen und Rahmenbedingungen von Promotionen in Deutschland ; Ergebnisse aus dem ProFile-Promovierendenpanel

Wer an deutschen Hochschulen promoviert und wie die Wege zur Promotion aussehen, kann seit Jahren nur sehr bedingt beantwortet werden. Das Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung (iFQ) hat vor diesem Hintergrund drei Studien veröffentlicht, die einen neuen Überblick über das deutsche Promotionswesen geben. Neue Ergebnisse aus dem ProFile-Promovierendenpanel des iFQ geben außerdem erstmals umfassend Aufschluss über die Situation von Promovierenden und die Entwicklungen im Rahmen der strukturierten Promotion. Die Studie "Promovierende im Profil" versammelt neue Einsichten auf der Grundlage einer seit 2009 stattgefundenen Befragung von 28.000 Promovierenden unter Berücksichtigung unterschiedlicher Promotionsmodelle und Fachkulturen

The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality - A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied. The factor decomposition of disposable income into single income components shows that capital income is exceedingly volatile and its share in disposable income has risen in recent years. Moreover, capital income makes a disproportionately high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular. Thus capital income accounts for a large part of disparity in all three countries

The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality – A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the US

The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU

How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that benefits are the most important factor reducing inequality in the majority of countries. The factor source decomposition approach, however, suggests that benefits play a negligible role and sometimes even contribute slightly positive to inequality. On the contrary, here taxes and social contributions are by far the most important contributors to income inequality reduction. We explain these partly contradictory results with the different normative focus of the two approaches and show that benefits have other aims than redistribution. Finally, our country clustering shows that the Eastern European countries do not form a distinguished group. The Central Eastern European countries group together with the Continental European countries and the Baltic States show similarities with some Southern European countries

Eine Dateninfrastruktur für die Gesellschaftswissenschaften. Unterstützung in der Arbeit mit Forschungsdaten durch KonsortSWD

KonsortSWD ist das NFDI Konsortium für die Sozial-, Verhaltens-, Bildungs- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Für die äußerst vielfältigen Datentypen und Forschungsmethoden bauen die Beteiligten im Rahmen der NFDI eine bereits bestehende Forschungsdateninfrastruktur aus und ergänzen neue integrierende Dienste. Basis sind die heute 41 vom Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten akkreditierten Forschungsdatenzentren (FDZ). FDZ sind Spezialsammlungen zu jeweils spezifischen Forschungsdaten, z.B. aus der qualitativen Sozialforschung, und können so Forschende auf Basis einer ausführlichen Expertise zu diesen Daten beraten. Neben der Unterstützung der FDZ baut KonsortSWD auch neue Dienste in den Bereichen Datenproduktion, Datenzugang und Technische Lösungen auf.KonsortSWD is the NFDI consortium for the social, behavioural, educational and economic sciences. The stakeholders are expanding an existing research data infrastructure within the NFDI to accommodate these highly diverse types of data and research methods, and adding new integrating services. The 41 research data centres (RDCs) already accredited by the German Data Forum constitute the basis for this. The RDCs are special collections of specifc research data, e.g. from qualitative social research, and can thus advise researchers on the basis of their detailed expertise on the relevant data. In addition to supporting the RDCs, KonsortSWD is also establishing new services in the areas of data production, data access and technical solutions

The impact of household capital income on income inequality—a factor decomposition analysis for the UK, Germany and the USA

Capital income, CNEF, Factor decomposition, Inequality,